NOW Ensemble
John Supko
Q2 Music and NOW Ensemble pair up for a live performance in celebration of the NOW Ensemble’s latest album, Dreamfall.
Monday, June 15 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $20
The Greene Space, 44 Charlton Street, New York, NY
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Carte Blanche Avanti! | Chelsea Music Festival
The 2015 Chelsea Music Festival’s ensemble-in-residence Avanti! leads the Festival’s annual Carte Blanche evening with a portrait of Finnish music today.
Monday, June 15 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $35
Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue, New York, NY
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Midsummer Night Magic | Chelsea Music Festival
This concert includes the world premiere of Fern Flowers by the young Finnish composer Uljas Pulkkis, a piano trio commissioned by the Chelsea Music Festival. The week of the Chelsea Music Festival falls on the time in Finland “Midsummer Night” is being celebrated. The piece references Finnish Tango as well as fern flowers, which are a part of the charming midsummer night’s eve mythology.
Tuesday, June 16 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $35
St. Paul’s German Lutheran Church, 315 West 22nd Street, New York, NY
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Project 88
Tomoko Mukaiyama. Photo by Shinji Otani.
Project 88 is a piano recital that expresses the versatility of Tomoko Mukaiyama as a pianist.
Wednesday, June 17 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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Immutable Dreams | Chelsea Music Festival
Experience the New York Premiere of Immutable Dreams by Hungarian-Canadian composer Kati Agócs and the mighty string Sextet in B-flat Major by Dohnányi, as Chelsea Music Festival honors the legacy of Ernő Dohnányi and his efforts in the 1930-40s to protect Jewish friends from the Nazi regime in Germany and Hungary.
Wednesday, June 17 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $35
Leo Baeck Institute, 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY
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Andy Didorenko
The music of Andy Didorenko is featured.
Thursday, June 18 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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R. Andrew Lee
R. Andrew Lee
Pianist R. Andrew Lee performs music by Michael Vincent Waller, Leah Kardos, Franz Schubert, Adrian Knight, and Galen H. Brown.
Thursday, June 18 at 8:30 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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Voices of Finland: The Tapiola Chamber Choir in New York | Chelsea Music Festival
Tapiola Chamber Choir performs works by Finnish composers Fougstedt, Johansson, Kokkonen, Kostiainen, Kuula, Madetoja, Makaroff, Mäntyjärvi, Merikanto, Palmgren, Rautavaara, and Sibelius.
Friday, June 19 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $35
St. Paul’s German Lutheran Church, 315 West 22nd Street, New York, NY
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Serious Immobilities
Randall Woolf
Serious Immobilities will be performed in its entirety consisting of two layers: the late Arthur Jarvinen’s Serious Immobilities, 840 variations on Erik Satie’s Vexations for piano solo paired with Randall Woolf’s Spineless Dog, variations on Satie’s Vexations for MIDI keyboard controller, MAC computer and electronics. This will mark the first time Serious Immobilities has been performed in New York since its 1998 premiere at The Kitchen.
Saturday, June 20 at 8:00 AM
Free
West Park Presbyterian Church, 165 West 86th Street, New York, NY
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forty/sixty
Pierre Boulez (photo credit: A. Warme-Janville)
The ensemble presents a program of solo pieces by Pierre Boulez, Kyle Grimm and Peter Evans interwoven with responsive duo improvisations.
Saturday, June 20 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $10
Scholes Street Studio, 375 Lorimer St, Brooklyn, NY
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Born Into Flames
Violist Jeanann Dara performs a 40-minute continuous work that is based on the tuning A=432hz.
Saturday, June 20 at 9:00 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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Make Music New York 2015
Make Music New York returns for its ninth year with a wild and wonderful mix of free, outdoor, public concerts all around the city on Sunday, June 21, the first day of summer.
Sunday, June 21 at 8:00 AM
Free
All day and everywhere (see website for details)
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Bang on a Can Marathon
Winter Garden, 2009 Bang on a Can Marathon – Photo by Stephanie Berger
Bang on a Can returns to downtown Manhattan for its annual Bang on a Can Marathon. This annual incomparable super-mix of boundary-busting music from around the corner and around the world features ten hours of rare performances by some of the most innovative musicians of our time side-by-side with some of today’s most pioneering young artists.
Sunday, June 21 at 12:00 PM to 10:00 PM
Free
Winter Garden at Brookfield Place, 230 Vesey Street, New York, NY
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Reinterpretations:Music for Cello and Piano
This month at Reinterpretations, Ramin Arjomand and Chris Irvine present an all-improvisation program for piano and cello.
Sunday, June 21 at 3:00 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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Soundscapes Series
Cornelius Dufallo – Photo by Jill Steinberg
Four times a year, at the start of each season, Patrick Derivaz and Cornelius Dufallo invite a guest musician to create new soundscapes for you. This iteration features harpist Shelley Burgon.
Sunday, June 21 at 5:00 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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Eavesdropping
Vocalist Jamie Jordan & guitarist Nadav Lev are featured on this iteration of Guy Barash’s Eavesdropping.
Sunday, June 21 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $15, $10 students/seniors
Spectrum, 121 Ludlow Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
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